15.11.7 How Does The Internet Continue To Work When Parts Of It Fail?
Describes the resilience of the Internet, explaining how routers dynamically discover alternative paths and why distributed routing allows communication to continue despite equipment failures or damaged communication links.
- Was the Internet Designed to Survive Failures?
- What Does "Distributed" Mean?
- Why Are There Usually Several Possible Routes?
- How Do Routers Discover Better Routes?
- Does Every Router Know the Entire Internet?
- What Happens If a Fibre-Optic Cable Is Damaged?
- Can Packets Take Different Routes?
- What Happens If a Data Centre Fails?
- Why Doesn't the Internet Collapse During Natural Disasters?
- Has the Internet Ever Completely Failed?
- Is Reliability Becoming More Important?
- What Can Users Learn from This?
- What Should You Remember?